Medievalism in a minority language : Frédéric Mistral’s Wish-Fulfillment Provençal Past

Frédéric Mistral is the only figure in the Felibrige to have devoted a significant portion of his oeuvre to the Middle Ages. This essay offers a new reading of his two works situated in the Middle Ages – the romance Nerto (1884), and the drama La Rèino Jano (Queen Joanna) (1890). It argues that as a...

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Main Author: William Calin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Radboud University Press in cooperation with Open Journals 2014-09-01
Series:Relief: Revue Électronique de Littérature Francaise
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Online Access:http://www.revue-relief.org/articles/10.18352/relief.884/